{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-reduce-gun-violence", "Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Reduce Gun Violence", "2022-06-09", "2022", "2022-06", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353\n\nJune 9, 2022\n\nCotton, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Reduce Gun Violence\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Steve Daines (R-Montana), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), John Thune (R-South Dakota) Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), and Todd Young (R-Indiana) introduced the Stop Gun Criminals Act, legislation to increase penalties for felons who illegally possess or use firearms. Text of the bill may be found here.\n\n\u201cViolent felons commit the vast majority of gun crimes and should be held accountable for their actions. Instead of releasing criminals onto the streets to commit more crime, our bill will establish mandatory minimum sentences for repeat offenders,\u201d said Cotton.\n\nThe Stop Gun Criminals Act would:\n\n\u00b7 Set a minimum sentence of five years for illegally possessing a gun.\n\n\u00b7 Increase the mandatory minimum sentence for serious repeat felons (defined as criminals with at least three prior convictions for crimes that are punishable by 10 years or longer) if they use a gun in the commission of more crimes, increasing the minimum from five years to seven years.\n\no For such criminals who brandish the gun during the crime, the minimum would increase from seven years to 10 years.\n\no For such criminals who actually fire their weapon during the crime, the minimum would increase from 10 years to 15 years.\n\n\u00b7 Make a technical correction to remove the \"residual clause\" from the Armed Career Criminal Act, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2015 for being unconstitutionally vague.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:13:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-reduce-gun-violence"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1548560578376055, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}